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Christian directions, showing how to walk with God all the day long drawn up…Christian directions, shewing how to walk with God all the day long drawn up…
Christian directions, showing how to walk with God all the day long drawn up for the use and benefit of the inhabitants of Sepulchres parish / by Tho. Gouge ...Christian directions, shewing how to walk with God all the day long drawn up for the use and benefit of the inhabitants of Sepulchres parish / by Tho. Gouge ...
London: printed by R. Ibbitson and M. Wright, 1661
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Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
2 Men asleep rise again: so the body after it is dead and laid in the grave,1 shall arise again; death is but a sleep somewhat longer than ordinary.
3 Sleep refresheth the body of a man: so doth death the bodies of the Saints; for the body lieth down a weak, frail, mortal, corruptible body, but riseth a strong, glorious, immortal, and incorruptible body; so much the Apostle Paul plainly expresseth, where speaking of the resurrection of the body, he saith, It is sown in corruption, 1it is raised in incorruption; it is sown in dishonour, it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power; it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body.
4 Sleep oftentimes cometh upon a man unexpectedly: so doth death; for how many dye on the sudden, when they least of all looked for it; and therefore how doth it concern us to live in a continual expectation of, and preparation for death?